Browsing School of Arts by Author "Young, John"

An annotated list of the works of Denis Smalley is presented. Each work is given an analytical summary, supplemented by the composer's own notes on the work along with dates of composition, the place and date of first ...

The potential in electroacoustic music to amalgamate sounds of natural real-world sources with the powerful signal processing and synthesis offered by computers makes possible interplay between different levels of sonic ...

Five Versions of Reality is a stereo acousmatic composition. It was created using field recordings from five different locations (Paris, Prague, Helsinki, Christchurch and Corfu) and digital audio processing tools.

The seemingly 'infinite' range of sound types available in electroacoustic music creates new questions and opportunities for the design of musical forms. Form is regarded here as a the principle by which sound identities, ...

This output consists of two movements of acousmatic music, premiered in full at the 2013 Espace du Son Festival, Brussels. The work aims to project as themes not solely the gestural, spectral and referential materials ...

This article traces the evolution of electroacoustic music in Wellington and the South Island of New Zealand. Electroacoustic music has a well-established tradition in New Zealand, dating back to Douglas Lilburn’s pioneering ...

This paper examines ways in which composers of electroacoustic music can create virtual and surreal sound worlds through: (1) the combination of recognisable sound events which may not normally coexist in physical Reality, ...

Inner extends out of the sound and sensation of human breath — from a visceral and magnified perspective. The starting point was concentrated listening to some straightforward electroacoustic transformations of breath ...

Electroacoustic music technology allows for the creation of distinctive ‘hybrid’ interactions between sounds, since features defining the identity of one sound object (such as dynamic profile or spectral envelope) can be ...

The title of this work is derived from an E. E. Cummings poem—evoking imagery of twilight as a vast spatial canvas for birdsong and a zone of spiritual reflection. In the work I wanted to create the sense of intimate ...

The potential for sound recording to act as a surrogate for memory is evaluated in terms of its use in the composition of acousmatic music. Adapted from the writing of Walter Benjamin, sound recording of real-life events ...

This work is an exploration of the sound-image of rain. In many ways, I felt the process of composing this piece to be one of revealing and expanding the myriad patterns and colors within the sound, normally noticeable ...

Acousmatic music has facilitated some of the most radical extensions of musical materials and methods available to the composer, moving beyond the traditional instrumental paradigm centred on melodic and harmonic forms ...

Digital audio tools can be used to facilitate many aspects of traditional note-based music making, but one of the challenges they present is also found in their potential to open up new opportunities for the shaping and ...

In electroacoustic music the loudspeaker can be thought of as a ‘veil’ isolating our experience of sound from other senses. This allows for a heightened appreciation of the aural dimension and creates a new listening context ...